Love in School Time

Between ever punctual bells
Rooms are chambers
Hallways echo loose voices
Like closing cell doors in prisons
I’m reclined against a yellow wall
That someday won’t exist
So many glorious buildings
For whatever cause will topple
And that is far greater than this
Certain windows linger
Injured by angry fists
That responded in a moment
Making cookie cut breaks
We try to save time that will soon
Be expired

I managed to find love amid

These confining walls
Which is lost now
As I feed my diary
Scribbled in place of homework

Someday I'll read it back
And question youth and

Wasted days at school
When memories were infused by that girl
Till hours vaguely calculated
Got passed pondering the future

And a love that disappears into it.